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...those who truly dote on the Pope, several television stations, including Mother Angelica's Eternal World Television (EWTN), will offer what one observer calls "miter to miter" coverage of the pontiff's trip to America starting today and ending with his departure back to Rome on Sunday. For those with special interests and more limited time, however, we offer the following guide to his travels...
Serious Wonk Stuff For the Pope's take on war, abortion, terrorism, globalization and human rights, focus on Benedict's Wednesday 10:30 a.m. White House event and Friday 10:45 a.m. address at the U.N. The U.N. speech will probably be more revealing, and he may also address the environment there...
...Pope Vs. Catholic Academe In 1990 the Vatican issued a strongly worded demand that Catholic academics be more supportive of a Catholic way of life and that the Church approve the appointment of theologians in Catholic educational institutions. Initially highly controversial, the document has been less stringently enforced than some professors and administrators had feared. On Thursday at 5:00 p.m. the Pope will meet with more than 200 Catholic educators at Washington's Catholic University. He is expected to try to find a nicer way to achieve similar aims, in what one observer has nicely termed, "affirmative orthodoxy...
...Abuse Scandal The Pope has not spent much time addressing this painful issue, having already expressed his shame and desire to prevent future abuse to reporters on his flight to the states. He may also discuss it on his Wednesday 5:30 p.m. Washington meeting with all the U.S. bishops, and certainly during the homily of his Mass for priests at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral at 9:15 a.m. Saturday. The outstanding questions are whether the Pope will talk to victims and whether he will assign any blame to the supervisors and bishops who ignored or covered...
Ground Zero At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, the Pope will say a lovely prayer, which has already been made public, at the site of the 9/11 attack on New York City. It begins, "O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather together at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain." He asks that God give "eternal light and peace" to all who died there, in the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pa. The prayer ends: "Comfort and console us, strengthen us in hope, and give...